Talk:Municipalities of Iceland

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Please add the counties to which the municipalities belong.

I can add the counties yes but I'm not sure whether I should go by this list of counties because these actually don't exist anymore as administrative jursdictions. Today Iceland is divided between several County Magistrates and their jurisdictions generally follow the traditional county lines but not completely. If I were to add the counties, should I use the traditional counties or the modern day division? The problem with the traditional counties is that it is a purely historical division. But the problem with the modern division is that it is rather complicated and I wouldn't use tho old county names but rather the name of the town were the appropriate Magistrate has office. For instance, Dalvík has its magistrate in Akureyri but Ólafsfjörður has its own magistrate but yet both Dalvík and Ólafsfjörður are in the traditional county of Eyjafjarðarsýsla, to complicate it further, Glæsibæjarhreppur is traditionally a part of S-Þingeyjarsýsla county but today has its magistrate at Akureyri which is in Eyjafjarðarsýsla as previously mentioned.

I could also use other divisions such as the general assembly constituencies or the district court jurisdictions, those are a lot simpler. Perhaps I could use both the magistrate jurisdictions and the constituencies. Such a table might look like this: deleted table as it was messing with the page Biekko 01:04, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I would prefer to have (also?) a list of the cities and villages as we have it in the German version. For example, I would not have known which municipality the town of Selfoss belongs to. The list could be by alphabetical order. The German list is around the country against clockwise direction.

Reykholt 19:26, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Such a list already exists at List of cities in Iceland, the German page should link to that page, not this one as municipalities and cities are not the same thing. --Biekko 21:09, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

The main article on Iceland says there are 104 municipalities, yet I see only 101 listed here. What's up with that? A-giau 04:14, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Some of them merged in 2004. --Bjarki 13:20, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)